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About Adium X
Adium X is an open-source Instant Messaging
program for Mac OS (10.x). It can be used with the Jabber service at Rutgers as
well as other networks such as AOL Instant Messenger, and GoogleTalk.
With Adium X, users can log in to multiple accounts on
different
instant messaging networks simultaneously. For example, users can chat
with others on Jabber, AOL Instant Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger all
at the same time.
The Rutgers Office of Information Technology supports Adium X
only for University users.
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at Rutgers is subject to the terms of the Rutgers
Acceptable Use Policy
for Computing and Information Technology Resources. Chat service
features such as file transfers over the Internet also contribute to
bandwidth use. Students who connect to the Rutgers Network from the
residence halls would benefit from monitoring their usage with the Network
Usage Tool
on the ResNet Home Page. Files transferred through GAIM to or from
systems outside of the .rutgers.edu domain count toward the Internet
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Installing
and Configuring Adium X for Jabber
at Rutgers
Note: Using Jabber with Adium
on the Rutgers
Network requires an existing NetID account on the Rutgers Central
Server Systems. Rutgers University students, faculty and staff can
create a NetID and an associated e-mail account by clicking here.
- Make sure you download the current version of Adium X
located on this page .
- Once the file is done downloading and the image opens Adium
X can be installed by dragging the icon to the Applications
folder on the computer.
- Once the installation is done click on the Adium icon located
in the Applications folder to run the program and start configuring
Adium.
- When Adium starts select Adium from the
Apple toolbar and select Prefrences:
- Select Accounts then use the "+" drop
down section. Select Jabber from the list of
account types:
- On the Accounts tab enter the Jabber
ID in the form of netid@rutgers.edu.
Do not enter the password. Once this is done the screen should look
like the picture below. After the information has been entered, click
on the Option tab to proceed to the next
step.
- In the Options tab check off the
Use
TLS
encryption (if possible) option. Click OK
to connect to the Rutgers Jabber server.
- A prompt will prompt you for a password. Enter the
Rutgers password associated with the NetID for the
account (NOTE: If you have an account on both a faculty/staff system
as well as a student system enter the password for the faculty/staff
system). Click Ok to connect.
- Once connected the indicator on Adium X will display Available.
Any contacts that were added previously, and
who are online, will be displayed.
Adding
Contacts
- To add a Contact (buddy) to the contact list in
Adium X
select Add Contact
from the Contact
menu in the toolbar
- In the Add
Contact dialog box
- Select Jabber
from the Contact Type
drop down box.
- Enter the Jabber
ID of the user that is to be added to the contact list in
the form of netid@rutgers.edu
- Optionally
add an Alias
that the contact should be displayed as in the contact list
- If a contact is to be added to a special
group in the
contact list, choose the group from the In Group drop down
box.
- The Add
to
Accounts area
is used if there are multiple Jabber accounts set up on a computer.
If there are multiple accounts set up check the box next to
the
account for which the contact should be added.
- Click Add
to add the contact.
- The final part of adding a contact is a two
step process.
- The contact that is being added gets a pop
up message asking the user to authorize being added to the
contact list
- The user who initiated adding the contact
will also get an
authorization message asking for permission to be added to the contact
list of the jabber account that was added. To authorize the
transaction click the Authorize
button on the message.
Group Chat
- In order to use the Jabber Group Chat feature,
to either create a new chat room or join an existing chat room click on File and
select Join Group Chat
- When the Join Chat dialog screen appears select the
Rutgers Jabber account from the drop down box.
- On the Join
Group Chat screen fill out the following information:
- Chat
Room Name:
enter the name of the chat room that is to be joined or the new chat
room to be created.
- Sever:
enter chat.Rutgers.edu,
- Handle:
enter the netid for the account (Note:
if you are using a departmental account please read Appendix A).
- Password:
enter the password for the chat room if needed.
- Press Join
to enter the chat room
- The chat room will then be opened
where users will be able
to speak to each other freely.
- Now that a chat room has been
created other users can be
invited to enter the room. To invite a user on the contact
list Control Click
on the user in the contact list ---> select Invite To Chat then
select the chat room.
- The Invite
To Chat box should open where a message to be sent along
with the invitation can be entered. Click Invite to send the
invitation.
- If the user accepts the
invitation the chat room will
appear on there computer and they will be taken to the chat room.
Appendix A
Using
Departmental Accounts With Jabber
On the Central Service Systems departments can get special accounts
called Departmental
Accounts (also known as Become
Accounts).
Departmental accounts allow multiple users to be able to
access
an account to read e-mail and do other administrative functions without
having to share a password. Departmental accounts can also be
used with Jabber. In order to log into a departmental account
using Jabber use the instructions in the Installing
and Configuring section of this document, but
instead of using the NetID and password associated with your account,
the Jabber ID should be becomeaccount_name@rutgers.edu
and the password should be your_NetID:your_password.
Additionally in step 7 of the Installing and Configuring section you
will need to change the Resource
section to be something other then Adium.
While departmental accounts can also be used in Jabber chat rooms,
because of the way Jabber is implemented departmental account users
will need to take an
extra step to get this to work. At Rutgers Jabber is set up
to not allow users to change their handle (nickname) in the chat rooms,
and also to not to allow users with the same handle to be logged into
the
same chat room. To get around this, the Rutgers system allows
users to change their handle in a chatroom to the form of accountname-something.
This can be accomplished in one of two ways. One way is to
set the handle section to be accountname-something when entering the
chat room (Read Group
Chat for information about entering a chat room).
The other way to change the handle is to use the /nick command
from within the chat room. To do this follow the instructions
in the Group Chat section
of this tutorial. After entering the room type in /nick accountname-nickname.
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